aqap, other elements, have developed as a result of the local environment. they are unique in to us unto themselves. we need to make sure that we are able to work with the governments and intelligenc service is so we can put pressure on them. and number of them have local agendas, and some of them have a collection is as international agendas. aqap in yemen as a effort underway to bring that government down, and the government has done a great job. there are other elements, narcotics smugglers, human traffickers, they involve kidnappings and ransoms, and are involved in terrorist attacks. we need to take into account what the informant is, who we can work with, how to put pressure on them, but any element associated with out carter has as part of its agenda death and destruction. i agree but we need to do is be mindful of this metastasis asian of the al qaeda cancer. >> in relationship to some kind of centralized control over all these things and having said that the corps is decimated, it really varies. we see the al qaeda core exerting control over these e